Otis Taylor continues to create a very individual sound. The heart of his music is in the blues, but he sings in short phrases and plays in circular grooves that invoke a trance-like mood; and with Ron Miles’ cornet and […]
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If you thought my first column this year focusing on upcoming notable roots music releases was packed with good stuff, you will be even more thrilled with what’s in store in the next few weeks. From Rhiannon Giddens’ and Otis […]
Colorado guitarist Otis Taylor can play the blues, but he’s never content to just repeat the same old 16 bars. His latest opens with a cover of “Hey Joe” that quickly displays the album’s reach, as violinist Anne Harris answers […]
Otis Taylor is the foremost of the musicians that are playing psychedelic blues trance music. They not only broke, but completely shattered and scattered the mould immediately after he was born. If you have heard his music you don’t forget […]
Otis Taylor continues to expand on his trancey blues, remaining both more traditional and more progressive than the usual roots crews. It’s not just that the drums and organ he introduced on 2005’s Below The Fold are more prominent; this […]
It’s not for nothing that Otis Taylor has amassed a large cache of W.C. Handy nominations since turning his sights fully on music in the mid-’90s. With a hybrid style that blends traditional country blues and Appalachian music, Taylor composes […]
Winner of the distinguished W.C. Handy Best New Artist blues award in 2002, Otis Taylor certainly deserved the recognition, though he was hardly new. A seasoned bluesman whose career dates back to the 1960s, Taylor became discouraged with the business […]
A veteran of the Otis Taylor Blues Band and T&O Short Line with guitarist Tommy Bolin, Otis Taylor ended his extended hiatus from the music business in the 1990s. The driving, intense folk blues of Respect The Dead follows last […]
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